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SAMPLE FORMAL ASSESSMENT

Name: Date:
Earth’s Surface Quiz: Chapter 23

  1. Match the terms with their descriptions.


Landslides

Mudflows

Slumping

Creep

A. Slow movement of soil down a slope.

B. Sediment and soil mixed with water move rapidly downhill.

C. Soil and rock weaken and rapidly move downhill together.

D. Fast movement of soil and rock that is loose down a slope


2. Which of these features is not formed through erosion?
U-shaped Valley Oxbow Lakes V-shaped Valley Moraines
3. Ocean Currents are not effected by
density temperature salinity pressure wind
4. Fill in the blanks to make the water cycle.

or TRANSPIRATION

CONDENSATION




_ or RUN OFF

5. Abrasion is a type of
_ weathering while when

minerals dissolve it is
_ weathering.

6. Deposition occurs when the water
_.
Features that are formed by deposition are (you can circle more than one)

Delta Horns Dunes Glacial Lake Beach Cave

7. The top of the saturated zone is called the
.


ANSWER KEY TO FORMAL ASSESMENT

1. Match the terms with their descriptions.



_D_Landslides

_B_Mudflows

_C_Slumping

_A_Creep

A. Slow movement of soil down a slope.

B. Sediment and soil mixed with water move rapidly downhill.

C. Soil and rock weaken and rapidly move downhill together.

D. Fast movement of soil and rock that is loose down a slope


2. Which of these features is not formed through erosion?
U-shaped Valley Oxbow Lakes V-shaped Valley
Moraines
3. Ocean Currents are not effected by
density temperature salinity
pressure wind
4. Fill in the blanks to make the water cycle.


_EVAPORATION or TRANSPIRATION

CONDENSATION


PRECIPITATION_

GROUND WATER_ or RUN OFF

5. Abrasion is a type of
_MECHANICAL weathering while when

minerals dissolve it is _CHEMICAL weathering.

6. Deposition occurs when the water
SLOWS DOWN.
Features that are formed by deposition are (you can circle more than one)


Delta Horns Dunes Glacial Lake Beach Cave

7. The top of the saturated zone is called the
WATER TABLE___.